Dual Mobile 2400's up and running!

[mamisano]

Running in my Gigabyte -P board.

Received 2 Mobile 2400's from NewEgg today:
AXMH2400FQQ4C
IQYHA0402MPM

Dropped them in without modding and came up at Duals at 800Mhz.

Wire modded the socket to run 15, 1.65V. Bios set for 150Mhz FSB. *NOTHING DONE TO L5's!!!*

Running 2 Prime95 instances (Stress Test) in Windows 2003, 2x 2250Mhz. No issues so far


Screenshot

 

[myocardia]

Why in the world did you mod them to run at 10.5x? That board won't run any higher than about 150fsb, IIRC. You're still underclocking them, since 10.5x150=1575mhz, so unless you're running them @215fsb, you have dual 1.575ghz Bartons. Everyone else (around here, anyway) running duals has them modded to an 18x multi at a 133fsb.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Why in the world did you mod them to run at 10.5x? That board won't run any higher than about 150fsb, IIRC. You're still underclocking them, since 10.5x150=1575mhz, so unless you're running them @215fsb, you have dual 1.575ghz Bartons. Everyone else (around here, anyway) running duals has them modded to an 18x multi at a 133fsb.

Look at the screenie, he made a typo in his post. The CPUs are actually using a 15x multiplier to run at 2250 MHz@150 MHz FSB

 

[joe2004]

Moses! My God!!! Am I going to buy another mobile? It appears so!!!
Gimme some benchmarks man!

 

[Soulkeeper]

very nice setup

that has to Kill any P4 HT setup

 

[Coquito]

I'm very interested in doing something like this. What boards would you guys recommend? Wouldn't just dropping them in result in just one proc. being recognized, unless they were opterons?

 

[Soulkeeper]

i think he is using an amd760 based motherboard (socket A)
asus, abit, and tyan make good ones in this department

 

[InlineFive]

I wish that Dual-462 nForce chipset would have come out. However as of right now the cost of the older hardware isn't worth it to me.

-Por

 

[bunnyfubbles]

yeah, it's definately the best bang for buck MP system you can get, although it's mostly a killer deal for those who invested in dualie Athlon systems when they were hot and new and found a killer upgrade path with getting dual Bartons as well as 2.4GHz+ out of each on simple air cooling. Definately a heck of a performance boost and for very little $$

 

[mamisano]

Typo Fixed As has been stated, multiplier is actually 15, FSB 150

 

[Zebo]

Sweet low vcore and decent temps. What PSU you have?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: mamisano
Typo Fixed As has been stated, multiplier is actually 15, FSB 150

That actually makes sense then. I was in a hurry, so I didn't even check the screenshot. Are you a big video editing/creating bufff? Too damn bad they still aren't making any games that are SMP-enabled. Are they?

 

[chsh1ca]

I think if I haven't got enough for a dual AFX/Opteron setup, I will be going with a dual Barton setup as my next upgrade. That's a good OC, and like others said, OUT WITH THE BENCHMARKS!

 

[mamisano]

What benches do you want me to run? Keep in mind, there is no high-end graphics installed. Currently set up as a Web/File server with Windows 2003 Server.

 

[chsh1ca]

Ahh, it's for a server, thought it was for your home rig.
In that case, nevermind about the benches, although I'm not sure it will be stressed at all with a web/file server as its only duties.

 

[Mik3y]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca
I think if I haven't got enough for a dual AFX/Opteron setup, I will be going with a dual Barton setup as my next upgrade. That's a good OC, and like others said, OUT WITH THE BENCHMARKS!

i thought it was impossible to have a duel athlon fx setup...? anyways, how's the system performance with the fsb only at 150?

 

[hytek369]

wow, there is a big difference in temps between the processors. what mobo are you running them in?

 

[chsh1ca]

Originally posted by: Mik3y
i thought it was impossible to have a duel athlon fx setup...? anyways, how's the system performance with the fsb only at 150?

The FX is just an Opteron that doesn't require ECC RAM. It has all three hypertransport links, though I do recall something in the last couple of weeks that discussed how AMD was going to crack down on using FXs in a DP setup. Personally, given the price premium they are charging for the FXs, and the fact that they already have the HT links, I'd like to see them leave them in place so that we could use FXs in enthusiast/home DP boards. Whether they do that I don't know, but it would be nice.

 

[Mingon]

Cmon up the multiplier to 18x be a man my 2500+'s are at 17x 138 at the moment, they will run 2.5ghz but I need to change the multiplier as it kills my 64bit scsi card running a 76mhz pci cloock (38*2 for pci-x)

 

[mamisano]

Yeah, I will be increasing the multiplier...need to see if I have time to screw around with it today.

 

[hytek369]

Originally posted by: chsh1ca

Originally posted by: Mik3y
i thought it was impossible to have a duel athlon fx setup...? anyways, how's the system performance with the fsb only at 150?

The FX is just an Opteron that doesn't require ECC RAM. It has all three hypertransport links, though I do recall something in the last couple of weeks that discussed how AMD was going to crack down on using FXs in a DP setup. Personally, given the price premium they are charging for the FXs, and the fact that they already have the HT links, I'd like to see them leave them in place so that we could use FXs in enthusiast/home DP boards. Whether they do that I don't know, but it would be nice.

any links on this? from what i heard, all the 940pin FXs require ECC ram, just like Opterons

The only difference between them is that FXs are unlocked

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: hytek369

Originally posted by: chsh1ca

Originally posted by: Mik3y i thought it was impossible to have a duel athlon fx setup...? anyways, how's the system performance with the fsb only at 150?

The FX is just an Opteron that doesn't require ECC RAM. It has all three hypertransport links, though I do recall something in the last couple of weeks that discussed how AMD was going to crack down on using FXs in a DP setup. Personally, given the price premium they are charging for the FXs, and the fact that they already have the HT links, I'd like to see them leave them in place so that we could use FXs in enthusiast/home DP boards. Whether they do that I don't know, but it would be nice.

any links on this? from what i heard, all the 940pin FXs require ECC ram, just like Opterons The only difference between them is that FXs are unlocked

1. FXs only need Registered memory, ECC is optional.
2. FXs are supposed to be single-processor.
3. Both processors are unlocked (to the extent of my knowledge). The regular A64 line isn't.

-Por

 

[chsh1ca]

Originally posted by: hytek369
any links on this? from what i heard, all the 940pin FXs require ECC ram, just like Opterons

You heard wrong, and in the future try going to the main front page, clicking on CPUs, then looking for an article on the FXs.
From: http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1884&p=5

On the desktop, DDR400 support is great and the 128-bit memory controller from the Opteron is also nice to have, however there is one issue with the Opteron's memory controller that made its way to the desktop - the memory controller only supports buffered (aka registered) DIMMs. Although AMD is launching with Kingston releasing a line of HyperX registered DDR400 DIMMs, the vast majority of the desktop users have invested in unbuffered DDR400 DIMMs and spending more on registered DIMMs isn't exactly an easy pill to swallow.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: Zebo
What PSU you have?

 

[mamisano]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: Zebo
What PSU you have?

Generic "Hi-Q" 350 Watt P/S.